geometric progression in English
noun
1
a progression of numbers with a constant ratio between each number and the one before (e.g., each subsequent number is increased by a factor of 3 in the progression 1, 3, 9, 27, 81 ).
Another way of obtaining this result is to differentiate both sides of the formula for the sum of a geometric progression .
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1. For example, the sequence 2, 6, 18, 54, ... is a geometric progression with common ratio 3.
2. The remaining formats fit in between all these formats, such that the sequence of formats A4, E4, C4, G4, B4, F4, D4, H4, A3 is a geometric progression, in which the dimensions grow by a factor 16√2 from one size to the next.